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R By the waters ...

Cf. Psalms 137.1, in which the exiled Hebrews mourn for their homeland: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." (NA)

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  →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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